Samuel Prescott Bush

Samuel Prescott Bush, around 1900

Samuel Prescott Bush (born October 4, 1863 in Brick Church, New Jersey ; now part of the city of East Orange , † February 8, 1948 in Columbus, Ohio ) was an American industrialist and the patriarch of the politically active Bush family. He was born to the Anglican priest James Smith Bush and his wife Harriet Eleanor Fay. He was the father of Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush , the grandfather of President George HW Bush, and the great-grandfather of President George W. Bush .

A substantial part of the American elite, politically and economically, comes from this region, measured against the places where they lived in the 19th century. Approx. The elite university Princeton is 20 km away , of which about 15 km is Rocktown, the first settlement of the Rockefeller family from Rockenfeld, not far from Neuwied .

Life

Bush graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1884. He earned the title Master Mechanic in 1891 , and in 1894 Superintendent of Motive Power . In 1899 he moved to Milwaukee , Wisconsin , to the position of Superintendent of Motive Power in the railway company St. Paul and Pacific Railroad from Chicago to accept.

In 1901 he returned to Columbus and became general manager of Buckeye Steel Castings Company , which manufactured parts for railways. The firm was headed by Frank Rockefeller , brother of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller , and among his customers were the companies of Edward Henry Harriman . The Bush and Harriman families were closely related until the end of World War II . In 1908, Rockefeller resigned and Bush became President of Buckeye, holding the position until 1927, making him one of the leading US industrialists of his generation.

Samuel Prescott Bush was married to Flora Sheldon (1852-1920) and had five children with her.

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